ring of frost - good change, would like to see a cast bar.
deep freeze - no. no. no..... no. (could go off on a tangent but just no.)
fire blast glyph - why is it not the target instead of deep freeze? or possibly frost bomb itself?
ice barrier - good, puts it at the number it should have been at
spellsteal mana cost - not the correct nerf I was looking for with spellsteal, but should deter mages from spamming it every global at least
mage armor - i mean sure that's something that is a problem, but it's really far down the list.

Not that I justify BM being OP, but I'm really glad they are not ONLY nerfing hunters but instead doing an overall sweep of things.

The changes look good tbh, and the DF change was unexpected tbh - but I think it might be nice, considering how many stuns there are in the game right now, it should be nice to have them less often.

Perhaps with rogues getting a buff here and there along with some priest love, RMP will come back strong again. (I guess the rogue paralytic stun not DRing with kidney would semi make up for the composition losing time on DF?)

Keliann said:

our paladin's a huge asian flake, PM if you're somewhat close to DC and can make it, will be running TSG and possibly another comp

Warriors randomly get a 1 minute AOE fear - Rogues feel it's crazy that their blind is 3 minutes in comparison, so instead of adjusting Warrior fear, Rogues are given a 1 minute blind. Homogenization of classes...this scenario happens over and over and your left with Arena in it's current state, everyone with 40 abilities and just a mess of things happening constantly.

Mages obivously needed adjusting, but instead of huge (20%+) numbers, Blizzard would do much better with small tweaks and then move from there. I don't think anyone would complain if the game was patched once a week with small 5%-10% balance changes until things normalized.

I also find it amusing that Spellsteal was directly attacked yet offensive dispel hasn't been addressed. The entire meta game changed with 8 second dispel and offensive dispel desperately needs the same treatment(whether it's 4s/6s). It might help to balance Sacred Shield/Druid Hots vs. the overlord shamans and not single out Mages.

New Pet Ability: Water Jet. Water Jet channels a jet of frigid water at the target, dealing Frost damage over 4 seconds. Frostbolts cast by the pet's owner that hit the target while it is being blasted with icy water will grant a charge of Fingers of Frost. This ability has a 24 sec cooldown (shared with Freeze) and a 1 second cast time.

I am wondering will this ability grant 2 FoF charges if you use frostbolt twice? it could be good if it did

New Pet Ability: Water Jet. Water Jet channels a jet of frigid water at the target, dealing Frost damage over 4 seconds. Frostbolts cast by the pet's owner that hit the target while it is being blasted with icy water will grant a charge of Fingers of Frost. This ability has a 24 sec cooldown (shared with Freeze) and a 1 second cast time.

I am wondering will this ability grant 2 FoF charges if you use frostbolt twice? it could be good if it did

Shares a cd with freeze, sounds like a pve ability.

I can understand the IB nerf, even the ring nerf. But deep? Why? Also why single out spellsteal when purge glyph is even more ridiculous? No changes to spriests or warriors? Do not get blizzard at all.

Yup but its situational if you have 1 target freeze will only grant 1 FoF charge you could use the new ability to get 2 charges of FoF but we have to test it to see and it will require 2 frostbolts which doesn't make it sound very great but could come in handy

Yup but its situational if you have 1 target freeze will only grant 1 FoF charge you could use the new ability to get 2 charges of FoF but we have to test it to see and it will require 2 frostbolts which doesn't make it sound very great but could come in handy

Not saying it could never be used, but how many times do you really have an opportunity to chain cast frostbolts in arena with the number of lockouts/stuns/silences there are? Would be much cooler if it was on a separate, longer cd considering how weak frosbolt hits.